Risk & Compliance Lead, Subcontractor Audits & Automation

KBS - Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, LLC; Oceanside (CA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kellermeyer Bergensons Services (KBS) is seeking a Manager, Compliance & Risk to lead audit, risk management, and process automation supporting Legal, Safety, Risk and Compliance teams. Initially, focus on subcontractor risk in California, expanding as the team grows.

You will design audit processes, coordinate with subcontractors, analyze data, and report to leadership. The role requires 7+ years in risk management with California experience, plus strong leadership and Excel proficiency.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in risk management focused on payroll or subcontractor compliance procedures, with at least 3 years in California.
• Experience planning and leading risk-based audits, from scoping and testing through findings and corrective action tracking.
• A track record of designing and implementing workflow automation or process redesign that measurably reduced manual effort.

Responsibilities

• Actively lead and oversee audit and compliance workflows, with an initial focus on subcontractors in California.
• Design and build audit and risk mitigation workflows with a focus on automation and system integration.
• Anticipates risk and develops proactive measures to identify and mitigate risks based on audit results, compliance requirements, and industry knowledge.
• Manage the training and development of compliance team to ensure their performance is focused on audits, compliance, and related legal obligations.
• Engages regularly with KBS subcontractors; develops communications and information for subcontractors regarding audit and compliance requirements.
• Assesses current processes on a frequent basis to identify process improvement opportunities
• Design and track mitigation plans and key risk indicators, and elevate emerging or unmitigated risks to leadership.
• Design and implement automated workflows, alerts, and escalations, such as records requests, missed-deadline notices, obligation tracking, and corrective-action follow-up, primarily in Netsuite, Salesforce, Agiloft, Microsoft 365, and reporting databases.
• Improves processes and documents procedures based on collection of metrics, feedback from team members, and approval from department or company leadership
• Evaluate AI and document-extraction tools for compliance review, and partner with IT on requirements, security review, testing, and deployment under KBS change-management and data-security standards.
• Develops or revises training documentation such as process flowcharts, guidance documents, and procedure manuals.
• Develops reporting for senior leadership, and to assist team with tracking workload and status of ongoing audits and record collection
• Sets up cross-functional meetings to facilitate the resolution of issues, mitigate risk, or discuss ways to solve problems and improve processes

Skills

Process engineering

Database skills

Compliance

Risk management

Audits

Payroll compliance

Subcontractor compliance

Leadership

Communication

Safety guidelines

Flexibility

Interpersonal skills

Bilingual English/Spanish

Microsoft Excel

Office Suite

Education

High School Diploma

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Excel

Office Suite

Job description

Kellermeyer Bergensons Services (KBS) is seeking a Manager, Compliance & Risk to lead audit, risk management, and process automation supporting Legal, Safety, Risk and Compliance teams. Initially, focus on subcontractor risk in California, expanding as the team grows.

You will design audit processes, coordinate with subcontractors, analyze data, and report to leadership. The role requires 7+ years in risk management with California experience, plus strong leadership and Excel proficiency.